U+0952 "॒" Devanagari Stress Sign Anudatta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
॒
U+0952 "॒" Devanagari Stress Sign Anudatta is a combining diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to indicate a specific type of low or depressed pitch accent in the recitation of Vedic Sanskrit. Placed below a character, this sign represents the anudatta accent, which is the lowest tone in the traditional three-tone Vedic system, contrasting with the udatta (high) and svarita (falling) accents. Its primary application is in scholarly and liturgical contexts to preserve the correct phonetic intonation of ancient sacred texts, thereby aiding accurate pronunciation and transmission of the Vedas.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0952 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Stress Sign Anudatta |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ॒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ॒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA5 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0952 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000952 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0952 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Joining Type | Transparent |
| Line Break | Combining Mark |
| Case Ignorable | Yes |
| Script | Inherited |
| Script Extensions | Bengali Devanagari Grantha Gujarati Gurmukhi Kannada Latin Malayalam Newa Oriya Tamil Telugu Tirhuta |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Cantillation Mark |
| Indic Positional Category | Bottom |
| Indic Conjunct Break | Extend |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Diacritic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Extend | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Extend |
| Word Break | Extend |
| Sentence Break | Extend |